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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preferential tariff, 20% lower for Cuba than for sugar from other countries, gave Cuban exporters another bonus of almost $8,000,000. Said State: "It would be logical to conclude from Major Guevara's remarks that he considers that such 'enslavement' would end were we to abandon our preferential treatment as regards Cuban sugar and pay the lower world market price...
...unaccustomed, collecting a cool $125,000 for a network appearance with Frankie. Elvis, proudly wearing medals for good conduct and marksmanship, promised that he will soon climb back into his gaudiest working mufti, agitate his pelvis as of yore ("If I stand still, I'm dead") and "never abandon rock 'n' roll as long as people keep appreciatin' it." But Army rigors had at least one benign effect upon him: he won't regrow his crazy sideburns...
...road singing their own pidgin French words to the tune of John Brown's Body. At the outskirts of town they split up into three gangs, and as they made their way down the streets, they began to swing their razor-sharp pangas with a kind of dazed abandon. They burned down 20 houses whose families had been trapped inside, slashed and hacked at others as if chopping through the underbrush. Of the 80 who were killed, 24 were women and 37 were children...
...sultry Actress France Nuyen, 20, title-roler in Broadway's long-running The World of Suzie Wong, suffering in London from general jitters and a throat infection that forced her to abandon the lead in the movie version of Suzie; Jack-of-All-Arts Noel Coward, 59, abed with phlebitis (inflammation of veins) in Les Avants, Switzerland; General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, showing "gradual improvement" in a Manhattan hospital after being downed by a prostate gland infection (see MEDICINE); Mississippi's segregating Democratic Senator James O. Eastland, 55, laid up in Maryland's Bethesda Naval...
While the number of workers available in the next ten years will be sufficient to continue the economy's growth, the uneven distribution of workers, said Mitchell, "will require a major overhaul in the employment policies of many businesses." Therefore, employers will have to hire older workers and abandon policies against hiring workers because of their sex, race, religion or nationality...